This document discusses attitudes, including what they are, their importance, characteristics, how they are formed and influenced. It provides several key points: - Attitudes are predispositions to evaluate objects positively or negatively and have three components - beliefs, affect, and behavioral intentions. - Attitudes are important because of their cognitive, affective, and connative functions. - Characteristics of attitudes include favorability, accessibility, confidence, persistence, resistance, and ambivalence. - Attitudes can be formed based on cognitions or emotions, and influenced cognitively or affectively. Common models for explaining attitude formation are the cognitive response model and the theory of reasoned action.

1. AttitudeAttitude

2. What is attitude?What is attitude?
• A predisposition to evaluate an object or
product positively or negatively.
• Is lasting because it tends to endure over
time.
• Is general because it applies to more than
a momentary event.
• Has three components - beliefs, affect,
and behavioural intentions.

3. Importance of attitudeImportance of attitude
Attitude is important because:
• Cognitive function.
• The affective function.
• The connative function.

4. Characteristics of attitudeCharacteristics of attitude
• Favorability.
• Attitude accessibility.
• Attitude confidence.
• Attitude persistence.
• Attitude resistance.
• Ambivalence.

5. Forming and sources ofForming and sources of
influencing attitudeinfluencing attitude
• Approach 1- attitudes based
on cognitions.
• Approach 2- attitudes based
on emotions.

6. Influencing attitudesInfluencing attitudes
• Two ways to influence-
1. Cognitively.
2. Affectively.
Attitude play powerful roles, once
formed.

7. Forming attitude through cognitionForming attitude through cognition
1. Cognitive response model.
2. TORA model.

8. Cognitive response modelCognitive response model
• Cognitive response
through
communication-
1. Counter arguments
(CAs)
2. Support arguments
(SAs)
3. Source derogation
(SDs)

9. TORA-Theory of reasoned actionTORA-Theory of reasoned action
Belief about
consequences
of an act (bi)
Evaluation of
consequences
of an act (ei)
Normative belief
(what do important
others think about
this act?) (NBj)
Motivation to
comply (desire to
please these important
others) (MCj)
Attitude toward
the act (Aact)
How much consumer
is actually influenced
by these others (SN)
Behavioral Intentions
Behavior

10. Calculating TORA BehavioralCalculating TORA Behavioral
IntentionsIntentions
BI A SN
A b e
SN NB MC
act
act i i
i
j j
j
= +
=
=
∑
∑

11. Structural Models of AttitudesStructural Models of Attitudes
• Tricomponent Attitude Model
• Multiattribute Attitude Model
• The Trying-to-Consume Model
• Attitude-Toward-the-Ad Model

12. The Tricomponent ModelThe Tricomponent Model
Components-
• Cognitive
• Affective
• Conative
• A consumer’s
emotions or
feelings about a
particular product
or brand

13. TRICOMPONENT ATTITUDE MODELTRICOMPONENT ATTITUDE MODEL
CONATION
COGNITION
AFFECT

14. COGNITIVE COMPONENTCOGNITIVE COMPONENT
• The knowledge and perceptions that are
acquired by a combination of direct
experience with the attitude object and
related information from various sources

15. Affective ComponentAffective Component
• A consumer’s emotions or
feelings about a particular
product or brand

16. Conative ComponentConative Component
• The likelihood or tendency that an
individual will undertake a specific action
or behave in a particular way with regard
to the attitude object

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